Underground London
Travels Beneath the City Streets
$43.38
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
17 March 2005
Summary
What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It’s a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the bunkers and tunnels, crypts and shadows. As well as being a contemporary tour of underground London, it’s also an exploration through time: Queen Boudicca lies beneath Platform 10 at King’s Cross (legend has it); Dick Turpin fled the Bow Street R…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349115658 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349115656 |
| Author: | Stephen Smith |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 17 March 2005 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 182mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
Smith’s cast of fluffers (Tube cleaners), flushers (sewermen) and toshers (scavengers) make engaging company– SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Brilliant… so much more than just another city ramble. - MAIL ON SUNDAY
(Smith) offers an enjoyable guide to the subterranean parts of a great city…his sense of the enveloping mysterious is spot-on. - OBSERVERA notable portrait of London… By becoming a proper witness to the unseen, covert and little-known, [Smith] rescues reportage and makes of it a kind of poetry - Iain Sinclair, EVENING STANDARDSmith’s cast of fluffers (Tube cleaners), flushers (sewermen) and toshers (scavengers) make engaging company - SUNDAY TELEGRAPHAbout The Author
Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith works for Channel 4 news and writes regularly for the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS.
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